On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Colin J. Williams <fn...@ncf.ca> wrote:
> It seems that these standards have been adopted, which is good: > > The following import conventions are used throughout the NumPy source and > documentation: > > import numpy as np > import matplotlib as mpl > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > > Source: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt > > Is there some similar standard for PyLab? > > Thanks, > > Colin W. > > Colin, Typically, with pylab mode of matplotlib, you do: from pylab import * This is essentially equivalent to: from numpy import * from matplotlib.pyplot import * Note that the pylab "module" is actually a part of matplotlib and is a shortcut to provide an environment that is very familiar to Matlab users. Converts are then encouraged to use the imports you mentioned in order to properly utilize python namespaces. I hope that helps! Ben Root
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